Tejas Gawande
- “Strategy salons” or “nerd clubs” can be powerful tools for generating ideas and fostering innovation. Use your nerd club as a safe space to explore half-formed ideas. Limit it to a few engaged individuals who genuinely want to participate. Set ground rules for discussions, like using “yes, and” to build on ideas and leaving negative feedback aside... See more
from Alex Komoroske by Lenny Rachitsky
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Nerd club as a safe space to explore half-formed ideas
- Read, but don’t just read. Read the best book you can find.
Write, but don’t just write. Write the best idea you can conceive.from 3-2-1: On the power of going for it, the value of sharing what you know, and how to figure out what you really want by James Clear
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Commitment to the best.
- Taste is eating software. Taste is the new weapon.
from Taste is Eating Silicon Valley. by Anu Atluru
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Utility plus taste is the foundation of software now
- “Inspiration comes on the twenty-fifth attempt, not the first. If you want to make something excellent, don’t wait for a brilliant idea to strike. Create twenty-five of what you need and one will be great. Inspiration reveals itself after you get the average ideas out of the way, not before you take the first step.”
from 3-2-1: On the source of inspiration, the bond between love and grief, and the power of hope by James Clear
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Ideas take time
Once again I was struck by one of the miracles of the cognitive process—that the act of writing will summon from the buried past exactly what we need exactly when we need it. Memory and intuition and chance associations will always generate a certain percentage of what any writer writes. The remainder is generated by reason.
from Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All by William Zinsser
Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.
from How to Do Great Work
- “If your world is not enchanted, you’re not paying attention.”
from The Bucket Theory of Creativity by Alex Dobrenko
- Forget the myth of the 'Eureka!' moment, and allow me to suggest another way: the bucket theory of creativity.
Buckets are little homes for the things you want to explore deeper.
Maybe you’ll write or draw or build about them one day, but that’s not really the point.
All you gotta do is make some buckets.
Because making buckets creates a magnetic fo... See morefrom The Bucket Theory of Creativity by Alex Dobrenko
- When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything wi... See more
from More People Should Write by jsomers.net
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The mind is an auto-sorting machine. It subconsciously organizes better when it knows what you’re looking for